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This list of playing card nicknames shows the nicknames of playing cards. Some are generic while some are specific to certain card games; others are specific to patterns, such as the court cards of the Paris pattern and the Tell pattern for example, which often bear traditional names.
Louis Rodolphe Salis [1] (29 May 1851 – 20 March 1897) was the creator, host and owner of the Le Chat Noir ("The Black Cat") cabaret (known briefly in 1881 at its beginning as "Cabaret Artistique") in the Montmartre district of Paris. With this establishment Salis is remembered as the creator of the modern cabaret: a nightclub where the ...
Chat Noir means "Black Cat" in French. It refers to: The French spelling of Cat Noir, a.k.a. Adrien Agreste, the male title character in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir; Le Chat Noir, a 19th-century cabaret in Paris, France, or its weekly magazine This was also the name of a nightclub in Nancy, France, where a shooting occurred in May 2022.
A poster of Le Chat Noir may also be seen prominently in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's hanging on the wall over the staircase. Le Chat Noir is the name of the nightclub where Frank Sinatra and Natalie Wood rekindle their relationship, in the 1958 movie Kings Go Forth. There is also the famous cat painting with blinking eyes on the entrance wall.
The following sets of playing cards can be referred to by the corresponding names in card games that include sets of three or more cards, particularly 3 and 5 card draw, Texas Hold 'em and Omaha Hold 'em. The nicknames would often be used by players when revealing their hands, or by spectators and commentators watching the game.
Chat Noir opened 1 March 1912 in the Tivoli building. [3] Bokken Lasson managed the cabaret from 1912 to 1917. [4] Chat Noir became a cultural meeting place, with the artists Christian and Oda Krohg (Bokken's sister) as leading figures. Their son Per Krohg painted the first decorations. To begin with Chat Noir was a literary cabaret.
Adolphe Willette: A drunken Pierrot dances beneath the Moon.Detail of cartoon from Le Chat noir, January 17, 1885.. Pierrot lunaire: rondels bergamasques (Moonstruck Pierrot: bergamask rondels) is a cycle of fifty poems published in 1884 by the Belgian poet Albert Giraud (born Emile Albert Kayenbergh), who is usually associated with the Symbolist Movement.
The composition is indicated in brackets thus: (suits x cards) e.g. (4 x AKQJT) means 4 suits each containing the Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten. The key to suits is: F = French-suited cards, G = German-suited cards, I = Italian-suited cards, Sp = Spanish-suited cards and Sw = Swiss-suited cards.